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One Month Project Management

Learn Project Management in Under One Month

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Have you always wanted to get into project management, but weren’t sure where to start? Or maybe you’re finding yourself responsible for projects and project teams— even though that’s not on your business card. One Month Project Management will help you save time and money and successfully take your projects from ideation to reality.

You’ll get a great overview of the practicalities of Project Management and putting what you’ve learned to work right away, regardless of what field you’re in. This course is designed to give you hands-on, immediately applicable knowledge including email optimizations, schedule planning, work breakdown structures, and more.

Taught by Alex Bisker, Project Manager at 18F.

Who is the target audience?

Someone looking to get into PM to see if this is a career track they are trying to go into.

Someone who has taken on the duties of a Project Manager (at a startup, or agency) and needs to use the skills on a day to day basis.

The developer that needs to know the basic tenets of project management. So that they don’t build a website that they don’t need.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Project Management. Is this course right for you? If you ever need to manage a project, probably.

Welcome!

01:08

What exactly is Project Management? We summarize the complexities and clarity of everything - time management, risk assessment, scope creep - good project management entails.

What's In A Name?

01:23

The phases, or steps, of successful project management are (spoilers) initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure. In this lesson, we dive into what that means.

Going Through A Phase (Of Project Management)

01:46

Let's begin at the beginning: with asking questions of the sponsors and stakeholders behind the project; and with the logistics you have to tame. Plus, the project manager's secret weapon.

Initiation Phase: With Great Power, Etc...

06:24

Projects fail when you fail to plan - so let's talk about the importance of the planning phase and tools like WBS and scheduling that will help you actually deliver deliverables.

Spec-Tacular Planning

06:41

In this lesson, we cover all the forces project managers have to bear in mind as they plan: time, cost, and scope. We visualize these constraints with the not-actually-ominous Iron Triangle. Pythagoras would be proud.

The Iron Triangle

04:17

Stay PERT, everyone! Now we get into the grit (and nit?) of estimating your project completion time and developing workable schedules.

A Brief History Of (Estimating) Time

09:39

Now we turn to cost - the resources and personnel you have available for a given project. Designing a project with cost in mind will make everyone above and below you happy.

Resource Costs Are People!

02:08

What do schedules actually look like? One of the most common and useful tools for schedule creation is the magnificent Gantt Chart.

Gantt You Break It Down?

02:07

Welcome to our discussion of scope, in which we tell you to (constructively) say no to power, to decide what can and can't be accomplished, and to look at your project with a bird's eye.

Scoping Out Your Scope

02:25

A sponsor with a very Southern accent has a project she'd like you to manage.

Alice Needs a Cake

00:18

In this challenge, use what you know about the small bakery you project manage to formulate a sponsor interview for Alice and her jaunty scarf.

Challenge 1 - Go Ask Alice

00:32

In this next phase of the challenge, the sponsor gives you all the context and requirements for her project. Listen closely.

Alice Explains It All

02:42

In this part of the challenge, it's time to create a WBS form and a Gantt chart which addresses all your sponsor's requests.

Challenge 2 - You May Now Schedule Your Deliverables

00:24

We discuss the constraints, risk, deliverables, and dependencies of the great cake challenge. There's a lot of options and variety for how to solve the problems. But we'll work through a few possible solutions.

Example Answers: Colorin' The Frame

09:35

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Week 2

10 Lectures
34:08

In the execution phase, we translate goals and deliverables into tasks to achieve them. Or, in our example project management challenge, to achieve tasty, tasty cake.

Execution: Let's Do This Discrete Series Of Things!

00:57

As we enter the execution phase, it's time to talk about task management systems. We're going to go through several in detail, but this lesson gives you some important ideas to keep in mind about them.

Who Manages The Tasks? (Task Managers)

01:21

Welcome to Trello, a flexible and open source task-manager. Its boards, lists, and cards are perfect for organizing your projects, deliverables, and tasks.

You Say Goodbye, I Say Trello

07:23

The next task management system we examine is Basecamp. While it's more geared towards professional project management, it's customizable for an infinite variety of projects.

Safe On Basecamp

07:06

Welcome to the third task manager on our tour: Asana. It has similar functionality to Trello and Basecamp, but a lot of customization, and circle icons, all its own.

Asana Is Buckets Of Fun

03:49

As you move through your project, screen sharing problems can facilitate meetings and check-ups with remote contractors, freelancers, or coworkers across the office.

Other Tools - Screen Sharing Is Caring

01:51

While Google Spreadsheets and Excel are perfectly find for scheduling and project management, Team Gantt has a lot of power and flexibility specifically for project management. Let's go through it.

Other Tools - Go Team Gantt

05:52

What other tools do you have to help execute a project? Everything. Everything that helps you communicate with your team is a valuable tool.

Other Tools - Avoid A Failure To Communicate

01:10

In our continuing project management challenge, this next step is to take everything you've planned and input it into a task management system.

Challenge 3 - Dive Into Task Managers

00:33

Trello again! In this next project management exercise, we look an example of how a task manager can display all the deliverables you need and the schedule in which you need to roll them out.

Example Answer - On-Trello-Boarding Our Cake

04:06

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Week 3

10 Lectures
42:56

As a project manager, you need to both active listen and be listened to. So how does that work? We talk about the monitoring or control phase, which is really all about effective leadership.

How To Win Friends And Make Them Keep To A Schedule

02:37

Talking about talking: we cover some best practices for communicating with your team, active listening, and some of the pitfalls of ineffective communication all project managers should watch out for.

Another Post On The Wall: Communication

08:24

You have 175 new ways people ignore their emails! In this lesson, we discuss strategies to keep information you send via email clear, concise, and out of the spam folder.

Emails Are The Worst

08:21

Meetings don't have to play out like a Dilbert comic. We cover how project managers can make them concise, comprehensive, and, dare we say it, useful.

Be The Leader You Want To See In The Meeting

04:40

Your job as a project manager entails a lot of damage control. Here we talk about steps you can take to put out whatever fires you can't prevent.

When Everything is On Fire

04:20

In this lesson, we cover some of the types of problems - from scope creep and schedules to stupidity - you're likely to encounter. Watch for what to watch out for.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (A Lot).

04:41

Change we can believe in. Here's how to handle it and have protocols in place so that whatever change occurs, it never derails your project.

Spare Some Change

02:52

What do you do when you're done? We cover how to effectively close out a project, and learn from it for the next one.

Closing Time

02:23

Now it's time to slip your project manager hat on and put all these communication tips into practice. Look at these emails and see if they're effective.

Challenge 4: Pull Out Your Red Pen

00:20

Are all your edits in? Good. We go through the challenge emails in depth to discover what they do well and where they fall short - or run long.

Begin at the beginning with a sponsor interview! This will help you as a project manager to head off risk and develop the version of your project any high school yearbook would vote Most Likely To Succeed.

Ask Your Sponsor Anything

02:47

Time to analyze this and analyze that: make a WBS to identify your project's deliverables and use an Iron Triangle to understand how best to work within your project's specific constraints.

Pumping Iron (Triangles)

01:48

Never start a land war in Asia and never start a project without making a full list of all the risks you could run into. Check out our Risk Management video for more tips.

Not Just A Game Of Global Domination

00:46

Time to set your schedule. Plan out the nuts and bolts with a Gantt Chart, which will let you see interdependencies and manage your project efficiently.

Scheduling: Declare Your Interdependence

00:39

Now that you've done all your scheduling and pre-planning, take your project to task. Use a free task manager system to set up all your deliverables and deadlines so your team can get to work!

Any Way You Want It, That's The Way You Task Manage It

00:52

Now that you've gone through the steps of setting up your own project, you can actually start being a project manager. Utilize your resources in the One Month Project Management Community and use everything you've learned to accomplish your own project, or anyone else's.

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